Monday 28 May

0930 – 1030   

Session 1

Opening and tutorial.

·        Opening

·        Invited presentation on “How and why is climate changing”. B. Bolin (former Chair of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC)

1030 – 1100

Coffee/The

1100 – 1230   

Session 2

Interference and systems impact.

·         Modelling Rain Scatter interference: a fresh analysis. (Invited) C. J. Gibbins (UK)

·         Total Interference Analysis on an Earth-Space System interfered by an adjacent terrestrial microwave system in heavy rain climatic regions. A.D. Panagopoulos, S.N. Livieratos and J.D. Kanellopoulos (Greece)

·         Characterization of ground-based antenna noise temperature due to precipitating clouds from Ku to W band. Frank S. Marzano, Carla Di Ciero, Piero Ciotti and Ermanno Fionda (Italy)

·        Correlative properties of atmospheric effects on dual-frequency links. J W F Goddard, A R Holt and C.G.Collier (UK)

1230 – 1400

Lunch

1400 – 1530   

Session 3

Measurements and analyses of rain effects.

·        The applications of a Hungarian measurement system in microwave network planning and operation. A. Daru,
J. Bitó, T. Faragó, and L. Babits (Hungary)

·        Analysis of cloud liquid effects on amplitude scintillation along microwave and millimeter-wave links. Frank S. Marzano and Carlo Riva (Italy)

·        Reconstruction of rainrate fields in complex orography using a C-band radar hybrid technique. Frank S. Marzano, Errico Picciotti, and Gianfranco Vulpiani (Italy)

·        The Effect of Drop Shape and Size Distribution on the Specific Rain Attenuation. Yang-Su Kim, Joo-Hwan Lee,
Jong-Ho Kim, Yong-Seok Choi (Korea)

1530 – 1600

Coffee/The

1600 – 1700   

Session 4

Modelling of climate effects with respect to rainfall.

·        A conversion method of rain rate statistics for various integration time. Joo-Hwan Lee, Yang-Su Kim,
Jong-Ho Kim, Yong-Seok Choi (Korea)

·        Rainfall characteristics for propagation modelling. Mauro S. Assis (Brazil)

·        Cumulative Distributions of Rainfall rate Attenuation due to Hydrometeors at 19 GHz. V. Kvicera, M. Hlavaty,
M. Grabner, P. Cejka (Czeck Republic)

·        A comparative study of cloud characteristics and cloud attenuation over two tropical stations in India. S.K. Sarkar and R. Kumar (India)

Tuesday 29 May

0900 – 1030   

Session 5

Measurements and analyses of clear-air effects.

·        A Raman backscattering lidar system for radio refractivity determination. J. L. Agnew and K. J. Twort (UK)

·        Observations of Vertical Refractivity Profiles Near the Surface of the Earth. Ben Segal (Canada)

·        Development of a 3-port spatial interferometer for studying tropospheric refractive-index fluctuations at millimetre wave frequencies. M.Evans, D.M.Pryde, J.C.G. Lesurf (UK)

·        Multipath Fading and Fading Correlations in Multi-Hop Links: Results of Measurements in Tropical Regions in Brazil. L. Silva Mello, E. Costa, M. S. Pontes, R. S. L. Souza, N. A. P. Garcia (Brazil)

1030 – 1100

Coffee/The

1100 –1230    

Session 6

Modelling of climate effects with respect to clear-air.

·        Determining refractivity structure from non-hydrostatic mesoscale models. A.S. Kulessa, C.M. Ewenz, W. Lieff (Australia)

·        Using mesoscale models together with PEM propagation models to determine microwave link output. C.M. Ewenz, W. Lieff, A.S. Kulessa, S. Salamon (Australia)

·        Fine structure characteristics of the upper air atmosphere over inland, coastal and water climates using high resolution radiosonde data. Sofus L. Lystad (Norway), Ken H. Craig (UK), Terje Tjelta (Norway)

·        The particularities of clear atmosphere absorption at millimeter waves band. N.V. Ruzhentsev and V.V. Budnikov (Ukraine)

1230 – 1400

Lunch

1400 – 1530   

Session 7

Dynamics of the radio channel.

·        A Climate-Variable Model For Rain Fade Duration Statistics. K. Paulson (UK), Zs. Kormanyos (Hungary), L. Pedersen (UK)

·        Fade Durations on Earth-Space Links: Dependence on Path and Climatic Parameters. L.E. Bråten (Norway), C. Amaya and D.V. Rogers (Canada)

·        Influence of Wind Events During Raining on the Attenuation of Point-to-Point Microwave Connections. Csaba Sinka, János Bitó (Hungary)

·        “Fractal rainrate model”. K. Paulson, C. Procter (UK)

1530 – 1600

Coffee/The

1600 – 1700   

Session 8

Modelling and analyses of sleet and snow effects, etc.

·        Modelling of microwave attenuation in sleet. C J Walden, G G Kuznetsov, A R Holt, D Eden (UK)

·        Detection, measurement and filtering of snow and rain attenuation events. Ferenc Kovács, György Enyezdi, János Bitó (Hungary)

·        Statistics of the 0º isotherm height in Spain. M. C. Moro, A. Benarroch (Spain)

Wednesday 30 May

0900 – 1030   

Session 9

Global and regional water vapour and rain studies.

·        New Global Surface Water Vapour Maps. G. Blarzino (Italy) and J.P.V. Poiares Baptista (ESA)

·        Regional prediction of propagation parameters for Ka and V band Satellite communication systems based on databases of climatic parameters. Antonio Martellucci (ESA), Marina Boumis, Carlo Riva (Italy)

·        Eight Years of Statistics of Meteorological Parameters at Spino d’Adda. Carlo Riva, Mario Mauri (Italy)

·        Rain rate measurements and attenuation modelling for small fade margin systems. A. Rocha, J. Neves (Portugal)

1100 – 1230 

Panel discussion

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